Re: ESSAY: Forward Moral Nihilism (EP)

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 22:40:03 MDT


At 05:04 PM 5/15/2006 -0700, you wrote:

> >
> > Can you give a reasonable account of how "emotion
> > compassion" other than
> > that directed to relatives would have improved
> > reproductive success enough
> > for the genes building brain structures for it to
> > become common?
> >
>
>Among groups of male chimanzees, who generally
>stay together for life, it has been found that their
>genetic relatedness is not significantly higher
>within a group than between groups. In other words
>they don't hang out with relatives much.
>Note this is not true for females.

Can you cite a source for this?

Keith Henson



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